Ninsikila presides over Dilmun, the pure land where the raven does not croak and the lion does not kill, a paradise untouched by sickness, old age, or lamentation.
Ninsikila went before Enki and lamented that her pure land Dilmun had no fresh water, whereupon Enki commanded Utu to draw sweet springs from the earth and fill the city's wells, transforming the barren paradise into a fertile garden.
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